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viburnum
CIDE DICTIONARY
viburnum, n. [L., the wayfaring tree.].
A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental plants, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
viburnum, n. Bot. any shrub of the genus Viburnum, usu. with white flowers, e.g. the guelder rose and wayfaring-tree.
Etymology
L, = wayfaring-tree
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